Daily Archives: April 18, 2007

Eurostar to go carbon neutral

Eurostar is developing a plan to cut carbon emissions by 25% per traveler journey by 2012.  From November 2007 Eurostar have stated that they will be making all journies carbon neutral. Richard Brown, Chief Executive Officer, commented “We don’t have all the answers but we do know that a high-speed rail journey is 10 times greener [...]

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Why it’s harder than you think to pay for a carbon guilt trip

The Guardian focuses on how complicated it can be for the everyday tourist to offset their carbon emissions.  “…When Guardian Money put the offsetters to the test, we found carbon calculations for the same flight varied by 200%, and the most expensive offsetters cost nearly 10 times as much as the cheapest.”

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